Friday, 30 November 2012

This is a message promoting the organisation of the ETC in LotR/Hobbit. If you're reading this and you are interested please share on your country's forums if it has not been done yet and please email Lemur below. To keep up the hobby we all love we need to unite and make it our own. The ETC has been organised by Warhammer, 40k and Flames of Wars communities many times in the past and it would be a shame if we, LotR players would not be able to do it. Spread the word.

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Dear Lord Of The Rings Players!

At the beginning I have to apology for my poor English, and I hope, that this information will be understandable for everyone
I also have a little request- write any post in this discussion in
English, so players from every country can understand what we are
talking about.

As most of you possibly know, for many years
Warhammer FB and Warhammer 40k players are organizing an event called
European Team Championship(ETC). Despite of the name, this is a
tournament, where they’re playing World Team Championship in both that
games. Why we don’t have such a great event?

The answer is
simple- nobody ever tried to organize it. Since whole initiative comes
from players, not from Games Workshop, we have to make it on our own.
Because ETC 2012 took place in Poland, last summer I tried to negotiate
with TO’s some place for LOTR players on that event. Unfortunately
Flames of War community was quicker than me, and I had to resign from
this idea. Because of the mess after this year championship I don’t
think it’s good idea to join the existing event.

We, players
from Poland, discussed a lot about this initiative last summer, and this
year it have returned to our minds. Many ideas about organizing
something like this comes from that conversations. But it can’t to be a
decision of just one country . Our wish is to make it international,
maybe even worldwide event so players from every country interested in
taking part of it, should have an opportunity to discuss and say
something about organization. In that case, we’d like to make a
suggestion.

In WFB and WH40k decisions about every edition of ETC
are taken by captains of national teams. For obvious reasons we don’t
have people like them in our society yet. In this case, to make our
discussion easier and more readable, we’d like you ask every interested
country’s players to choose some kind of representative in the next two
weeks. It’s totally irrelevant how will you choose him or if it will be a
player, a TO, or maybe the most known guy from your forum. The most
important thing is other players approval, and willingness to take part
in discussion about organizing our own version of ETC. For example I was
chosen, because most players in Poland are too lazy or don’t have time,
and because it was mostly my idea ;D

What’s the point of this
idea? We will have a discussion about, where event like this should take
place, to clarify some rules, restrictions, point limit, number of
players in team- in a shortcut we’d create a rulespack for, I hope, the
biggest LOTR event in history. I belive that many countries will be
interested in taking part in this project, and in 2013 we can meet
together on the international championship of our beloved game

If you are interested in this discussion, we’d like to invite your chosen representatives on: http://lotrtc.forums.gs/After
registration send a Private Message with a name of country you
represent to user emo. who will be an admin of this site. Because some
forums have restricted access, and only the representatives have an
opportunity to write there, users who will send this PM will also be
granted needed permissions. Of course everyone can read what we are
writing there and the rest of forum is open, so feel free to comment our
discussion.

If you have any questions or doubts- just post it, I’ll try to answer all of it.

GreetingsJakub „Lemur” Siedlecki, Representative of Poland in the „ETC discussion”

P.S.
Because this is not the only forum, where I have posted this
information, I may not be able to answer your questions every day. If I
won’t answer for more than 24 hours e-mail me at jakubsiedlecki41@gmail.com with information on which forum you wait for my response, and I will check it instantly.

P.P.S.
If your country have it’s own LOTR forum which I couldn’t find, and you
will inform your native players about our initiative, feel free to pass
my information there. Than e-mail me an address of this site. I’ll add
it to my daily checking list and answer all questions from that site too